Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Port Townsend, WA
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Vanessa Hooper
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC, PMH-C
Being highly sensitive isn't a flaw to fix, it's a nervous system trait that needs different supports. We'll work on understanding your sensitivity, reducing overwhelm, and building a life and relationships that actually fits how you are wired.
6 Years Experience
Online in Port Townsend, WA (Online Only)
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Shira Collings
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC
I support highly sensitive people in navigating a world that can often feel overwhelming. Together, we create a gentle, grounded space to explore emotions, build resilience, and honor sensitivity as a strength rather than a flaw. My approach is validating, empowering, and attuned to the depth and nuance that sensitivity brings.
6 Years Experience
Online in Port Townsend, WA (Online Only)
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Brian McCormack (Connemara Counseling)
Counselor/Therapist, LPC-A/LMHCA
I provide support for highly sensitive individuals, helping clients better understand and navigate heightened emotional and sensory responsiveness. Using evidence-based approaches such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and emotional regulation skills, I support clients in managing overwhelm, setting healthy boundaries, and reducing stress reactivity. My work focuses on reframing sensitivity as a strength, fostering self-awareness, and building practical strategies that allow clients to thrive with greater confidence, balance, and resilience in both personal and professional environments.
2 Years Experience
Online in Port Townsend, WA (Online Only)
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Ryan Shannon
Counselor/Therapist, LMHCA, MA, MS
If you are highly sensitive, everyday experiences may affect you more intensely than they seem to affect others. Noise, crowds, conflict, strong emotions, busy environments, or other people’s moods can leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or needing more time to recover.
In therapy, we can distinguish between situations you would like to become more comfortable with and sensitivities that may remain part of who you are. For some triggers, gradual exposure and emotional regulation can help you build tolerance and feel less controlled by distress. For others, the goal may be acceptance, stronger boundaries, thoughtful planning, and learning how to care for yourself in overstimulating environments.
My goal is not to make you less sensitive. It is to help you understand your needs, respond to overwhelm more effectively, and create a life that honors your sensitivity without allowing it to unnecessarily limit you.
1 Years Experience
Online in Port Townsend, WA (Online Only)
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Melanie Carey
Counselor/Therapist, LMHCA
Being a highly sensitive person often means experiencing the world with greater depth — emotionally, physically, and intuitively. You may notice subtle shifts in tone, energy, or environment that others miss, and you may process experiences more deeply and intensely than those around you.
While sensitivity can be a profound strength, it can also feel overwhelming in a fast-paced or emotionally demanding world. Many highly sensitive clients come to therapy feeling overstimulated, anxious, emotionally exhausted, or unsure how to stay grounded without shutting down their natural depth of feeling and perception.
In therapy, we work to understand sensitivity not as something to fix, but as an important way your nervous system and inner world are organized. From a trauma-informed and psychodynamic perspective, we explore how early experiences, relational dynamics, and nervous system patterns may have shaped how your sensitivity is expressed — including tendencies toward over-adaptation, people-pleasing, or emotional overload.
Using Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, we gently turn toward the “felt sense” — the subtle, embodied awareness that is often especially rich in highly sensitive individuals. This helps you learn how to stay connected to your inner experience without becoming flooded by it, and how to differentiate between what is yours, what is relational, and what is environmental.
The goal of this work is not to reduce your sensitivity, but to support you in living with it in a way that feels more resourced, regulated, and aligned. This often includes building stronger internal boundaries, increasing nervous system capacity, and developing greater trust in your inner signals.
Many highly sensitive clients also reconnect with creativity, intuition, and a deeper sense of meaning as they learn to work with — rather than against — their sensitivity.
This approach is especially supportive for creatives, deep feelers, and those who have often felt “too much” or “too sensitive” in relationships, work, or family systems.
2 Years Experience
Online in Port Townsend, WA (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Port Townsend, WA Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Port Townsend, WA average 15 years of experience and charge around $186 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (52%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (52%), and Existential / Humanistic Therapy (50%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$186
Accept insurance
52%
Offer sliding scale
48%
Gender ID
| 67% |
Female |
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| 22% |
Male |
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| 7% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 63% |
Online Only |
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| 37% |
In Person and Online |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 52% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 52% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 50% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 46% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 43% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 43% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 41% | Somatic Therapy |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 80% | Young Adult |
| 54% | Senior |
| 41% | Teen |
| 17% | Children |
Client Focus
| 72% | Women |
| 65% | LGBTQ+ |
| 46% | Men |
| 39% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 37% | Military / Veterans |